Off-road Wheelchair Sledding

All-Terrain Wheelchair Sledding

My favorite thing about the Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchair is how it unites friends and family. Having a piece of mobility equipment that allows a family to enjoy the outdoors together and do activities they previously couldn’t do is worth its weight in gold.

Without the Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchair we might have been stuck indoors on this winter day playing board games. But playing board games with Sam isn’t any fun because he is a prolific cheater. /s

Sam has Cerebral Palsy, but he isn’t the only one affected by the disease. When planning an activity his friends, caretakers, and family all need to decide if a wheelchair can do whatever the thing they want to do.

Today we went “Wheelchair Sledding.”

All-terrain Wheelchair Sledding

A simple activity like sledding would be off-limits with a regular wheelchair. Without the Extreme Motus off-road wheelchair, we wouldn’t have been able to go out together and play in the snow and have the great time we did.

Not many wheelchairs can be taken in the snow. The large tires of the Extreme Motus all-terrain wheelchair roll over snow just like every other type of terrain.

Last weekend Sam Durst gathered some friends and family and headed up Hobble Creek Canyon to test the Extreme Motus Off-Road Wheelchair on the frozen tundra.

The Motus did great on the sections of the trail that had been trampled down by sleds and people walking. Pushing through the deep powder was a bit of a chore, but we all had a blast playing in the snow.

Sam and his friends enjoyed the snow.

Normally people have more fun going down the hill on a sledding trip, but everyone seemed to laugh the hardest trying to push Sam back up the hill.

You might think that going down the hill is the best part of wheelchair sledding but working together to get Sam up the hill was hysterical. Why take the easy way when the hard way makes everyone fall down and laugh harder?

Each trip up the hill was a different catastrophe with people slipping and sliding and losing their grip on the wheelchair and falling into the snow laughing.

Like Sam participating in the Dirty Dash, the Extreme Motus continues to open doors to new experiences. For Sam, this chair is a mobility solution. However, the real magic behind the chair is how it allows Sam to do things with his family that he couldn’t do before.

Our wheelchair sledding adventure in the winter wonderland of Utah was perfect day where everyone could be included because of the right piece of adaptive equipment for the job.